Intended for would-be business professionals, this is a textbook on the Social Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. This book provides: a history of moral discourse since the Enlightenment, a history of economic thought from Aristotle and Aquinas to Ludwig Mises and Milton Friedman, and a history of property.

This is an indispensable textbook on the Social Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church for would-be business professionals. The over-riding theme of this book is that the original unity of distributive and corrective justice that prevailed in both economics and moral discourse until the 16th and 17th centuries was shattered by the rise of an "individualistic" capitalism that relied on corrective justice (justice in exchange) only.

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